Hot on the heels of an AMD antitrust lawsuit against Intel and a recent ruling in Japan that found that Intel abused its monopoly power, European Comission officials and competition authorities from several European countries raided the offices of Intel and several computer manufacturers. These "inspections" were probably carried out under article 81 of the EU Treaty, which prohibits price fixing and other distortions of competition within the EU.

You do realize that movie is bullshit propaganda anyway? Fans do stop working at times, but how many times has it happened to you that the cooling block fell of?

Actually, it's happened to me once before while my system was running. The plastic tabs on the socket of yesteryear were lousy. The heatsink's bracket broke them right off. Of course, that was a P200 MMX (coincedentally, the last Intel chip i've owned). I've had it happen a couple of times while installing a heatsink, also.

Anyhow, athlons have had overheating protection for a loooong time now, and if you think a amd 64 runs hotter than a current intel, you are either seriously misinformed, or just plain trolling.

Yes, I am well aware that my A64 runs cooler than my buddy's P4. A fan failure in a 1U case is still bad.
I know the P4 will stay running (but slow), and I hope the A64 will, too. I just don't know, though.

The point was, Intel's had some nice reliability features for quite a time longer than AMD. When the Athlons were coming out, I heard some IT guys belittle AMD's chips because of problems they had with the K5.

As for Apple using AMD, I don't see that happening. Intel makes the processors and supporting chipsets. AMD makes theirs to get the platform started, but rely on the likes of nVidia and Via to keep that part of the platform modern.